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Turner, Leah Marie. ""Roll" Models: Fat Sexuality and Its Representations in Pornographic Imagery." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7976.
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The purpose of this thesis is to use specific fat pornographic imagery as a means to help us understand fat tropes and fetishization. The goal is to use our understandings of masculinity and race within fatness to create a possible launching point for further study within the field of fat sexuality studies. My rationale for writing such a paper is because fat sexuality studies is a field which has very little content, but potential for incredible scholarship which can impact not only our understandings of fat bodies, but of all bodies. The method for this thesis involves looking at specific images of “still-image” fat pornography and using these images to explain theoretical conceptions of fat sexuality. My hope for the significance of this work is that it will help to more firmly place fat sexuality studies in the academic landscape as a site for further research.
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Móntez, Melissa I. "Let Your Panza be Your Guide: Decolonizing Fat in Chicanx Art and Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/856.
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Representations of Chicana bodies in dominant popular culture have historically been contested by Chicana feminists’ own self-representations through art and literature. However, few works examine representations of fat Chicana bodies in literature by Chicana feminists. Through a literary analysis of The Panza Monologues and Real Women Have Curves, as well as an artistic analysis of Laura Aguilar’s photography and through the lenses of Chicanx, queer, and fat studies, my research bridges a gap between Chicana feminist work and fat studies. It looks at how fatness is constructed through the self-representation of women’s bodies. Ultimately, I argue that these art objects are sites of fat Chicana artivism—activism through the use of art—that call for body liberation, respond to the “normative body” required by a colonial legacy of symbolic and physical violence against Chicanx women, and pave the way for further creative artistic and literary work centered on fat Chicanxs to be done.
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Millimen, Sarah K. "All Made-Up: The Hyperfeminization of Fat Women." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1429715105.
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Luz, Suelyn Cristina Carneiro da [UNESP]. "A participação das mulheres nos movimentos agroecológico e feminista e a contribuição do jornal Brasil de Fato." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124134.
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000818821.pdf: 2072337 bytes, checksum: 539bb081bf96faf1765c6fd08263b7af (MD5)Esta dissertação tem por finalidade discutir o Feminismo e a Agroecologia, bem como analisar a contribuição do jornal Brasil de Fato no divulgação de notícias sobre as mulheres integrantes de movimentos sociais feministas e movimentos sociais agroecológicos do campo. Para tanto, partiu-se de um aprofundamento teórico da concepção de Feminismo, em especial da corrente Ecofeminista, e do contexto histórico de formação dos movimentos sociais feministas e de mulheres camponesas, expor suas especificidades e reinvidicações. Além desse estudo, foi realizado um levantamento, principalmente histórico e geográfico, da questão agrária brasileira com enfoque nas consequência do sistema latifundiário que levaram ao desenvolvimento da Agroecologia no Brasil. As características da Agroecologia foram apresentadas nesta dissertação desde a sua conceituação científica às experiências empíricas de campo e dos movimentos sociais. Outro aprofundamento teórico esteve voltado para a definição de Comunicação Popular Alternativa brasileira, desde o período da ditadura militar até a criação do jornal Brasil de Fato, em 2003. Por fim, respaldando-se nos recursos metodológicos da Análise de Conteúdo, foram analisados os textos constantes nas 52 edições, e publicados ao longo de 2013 pelo jornal Brasil de Fato, que trouxeram como pauta as temáticas relacionadas às mulheres, na tentativa de demonstrar como este semanário contribuiu para a divulgação das ações dos movimentos sociais feministas e dos movimentos sociais agroecológicos de mulheres camponesas nesse determinado período
The dissertation aims to discuss feminism and agroecology as well to analyze the contributions of Brazil de Fato newspaper on disclosure news about women who take part in feminist's movements and agroecological peasants movements. For this purpose, it was led a theoretical study about Feminism conception - especially the Ecofeminism approach - and about the historic context in which these feminismts movements and peasants women movements were made up, to expose its specificities and claims. Furthermore, it was carried out a review about Brazilian agrarian question, mainly concerning historic and geographic issues, with focus on the consequences of landlordism, which led to the development of agroecology in Brazil. The main characteristics of agroecology are presented in this dissertation from its scientific conceptualizaton to empirical experiences in agroecology practiced by the social movements. Another theoretical study presented in this dissertation is to define Popular-Alternative Communication in Brazilian, Alternative Press, since the beginning of military dictatorship, in Brasil de Fato foundation, in 2003. The texts contained on the 52 published editions of Brasil de Fato in 2013 that referenced to women were analyzed, supported on Content Analysis methodology, with the intention to show how this newspaper contributed to disclosure the feminist and agroecological women movement's struggle during the cited year
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Luz, Suelyn Cristina Carneiro da. "A participação das mulheres nos movimentos agroecológico e feminista e a contribuição do jornal Brasil de Fato /." Bauru, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124134.
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Orientador: Maximiliano Martin VicenteBanca: Maria Cristina Gobbi
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Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por finalidade discutir o Feminismo e a Agroecologia, bem como analisar a contribuição do jornal Brasil de Fato no divulgação de notícias sobre as mulheres integrantes de movimentos sociais feministas e movimentos sociais agroecológicos do campo. Para tanto, partiu-se de um aprofundamento teórico da concepção de Feminismo, em especial da corrente Ecofeminista, e do contexto histórico de formação dos movimentos sociais feministas e de mulheres camponesas, expor suas especificidades e reinvidicações. Além desse estudo, foi realizado um levantamento, principalmente histórico e geográfico, da questão agrária brasileira com enfoque nas consequência do sistema latifundiário que levaram ao desenvolvimento da Agroecologia no Brasil. As características da Agroecologia foram apresentadas nesta dissertação desde a sua conceituação científica às experiências empíricas de campo e dos movimentos sociais. Outro aprofundamento teórico esteve voltado para a definição de Comunicação Popular Alternativa brasileira, desde o período da ditadura militar até a criação do jornal Brasil de Fato, em 2003. Por fim, respaldando-se nos recursos metodológicos da Análise de Conteúdo, foram analisados os textos constantes nas 52 edições, e publicados ao longo de 2013 pelo jornal Brasil de Fato, que trouxeram como pauta as temáticas relacionadas às mulheres, na tentativa de demonstrar como este semanário contribuiu para a divulgação das ações dos movimentos sociais feministas e dos movimentos sociais agroecológicos de mulheres camponesas nesse determinado período
Abstract: The dissertation aims to discuss feminism and agroecology as well to analyze the contributions of Brazil de Fato newspaper on disclosure news about women who take part in feminist's movements and agroecological peasants movements. For this purpose, it was led a theoretical study about Feminism conception - especially the Ecofeminism approach - and about the historic context in which these feminismts movements and peasants women movements were made up, to expose its specificities and claims. Furthermore, it was carried out a review about Brazilian agrarian question, mainly concerning historic and geographic issues, with focus on the consequences of landlordism, which led to the development of agroecology in Brazil. The main characteristics of agroecology are presented in this dissertation from its scientific conceptualizaton to empirical experiences in agroecology practiced by the social movements. Another theoretical study presented in this dissertation is to define Popular-Alternative Communication in Brazilian, Alternative Press, since the beginning of military dictatorship, in Brasil de Fato foundation, in 2003. The texts contained on the 52 published editions of Brasil de Fato in 2013 that referenced to women were analyzed, supported on Content Analysis methodology, with the intention to show how this newspaper contributed to disclosure the feminist and agroecological women movement's struggle during the cited year
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Murphy, JoAnna R. "Me Want Food: A Discourse Analysis of 30 Rock." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1321302513.
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Yount, Lisa Michelle. "Remembrance, representation and feminism : toward a politics of memorial curation /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1192184061&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-176). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Bechtel, Abigail A. "Unruly: Essays from a Woman Evolving." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491347435570709.
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Tiedemann, Heidi. "After the fact, contemporary feminist fiction and historical trauma." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ63656.pdf.
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Broom, Hannah. "Aggressive Flesh: The Obese Female Other." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16093/1/Hannah_Broom_Thesis.pdf.
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My visual art practice explores the point at which a sense of bodily humour and revulsion may intersect in the world of the monstrous-feminine: the female grotesque, presented as my own obese (and post-obese) body. This exegesis is
a written elucidation of my visual art practice as research. As an artist I create performative photographic images featuring taboo or
otherwise 'inappropriate' subject matter, situations, materials and behaviours including bodily fluids, offal, internal organs and my own post-obese body. Through these modes of working, I establish and investigate the subjectivity of
flesh: Why are we repulsed by the female grotesque? How can this flesh be used to subvert readings of the female body? My research is informed by those understandings of the female body, sexuality and difference described in the work of feminist theorists including Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, Ruth Salvaggio and Elizabeth Grosz. I explore the work of influential artists such as Eleanor Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas. In this context, I present my own visual art practice as a point from which the monstrous-feminine can be given voice as sentient, intelligent flesh.
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Broom, Hannah. "Aggressive Flesh: The Obese Female Other." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16093/.
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My visual art practice explores the point at which a sense of bodily humour and revulsion may intersect in the world of the monstrous-feminine: the female grotesque, presented as my own obese (and post-obese) body. This exegesis is a written elucidation of my visual art practice as research. As an artist I create performative photographic images featuring taboo or otherwise 'inappropriate' subject matter, situations, materials and behaviours including bodily fluids, offal, internal organs and my own post-obese body. Through these modes of working, I establish and investigate the subjectivity of flesh: Why are we repulsed by the female grotesque? How can this flesh be used to subvert readings of the female body? My research is informed by those understandings of the female body, sexuality and difference described in the work of feminist theorists including Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, Ruth Salvaggio and Elizabeth Grosz. I explore the work of influential artists such as Eleanor Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas. In this context, I present my own visual art practice as a point from which the monstrous-feminine can be given voice as sentient, intelligent flesh.
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McPeake, Zoe. "Our Bodies Aren't Wonderlands : Disenchanting the MIS(sing)Representation of Women in Popular Music." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38093.
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Through an intersectional feminist lens using Critical Discourse Analysis, this thesis investigates the representations of four prominent women, their embodiments and their sexualities in the lyrics of their songs.
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Robson, Josephine E. "Finding the female fan : a feminist ethnography of popular music in Sheffield." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2006. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20602/.
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Using the female fan as a contradictory metaphor of access and exclusion, this thesis investigates how popular music is used within and forms meaning for women and girls' lives. Relations between music makers and listeners are typically positioned to reinforce difference and inequality, and the image of 'hysterical' female fans screaming at boybands and rock groups is a familiar one. Fandom is thus feminised, sexualised and frequently demonised: rarely is it recognised as the motivating factor for making music. This is the starting point for a longitudinal feminist ethnography that explores the ways in which gender inequalities are constructed and contested through everyday music use. Drawing on social constructionist perspectives of gender as a 'relational category' (Cohen, 2001) and 'situated doing' (West and Zimmerman, 1991), I examine how gendered musical practices and relationships are shaped through three research themes: meanings of fandom, 'making it' and place. These themes are located in a particular spatial, cultural and temporal (1996-2006) context: the live rock and pop scene/s in the city of Sheffield, England. Building on the ethnographic work of Finnegan (1989; 1997) and Cohen (1991; 1997; 2001), I identify a range of particular and 'extra-local' barriers women face, from masculinist narratives of 'Sheffieldness' to the 'structural exclusion' from male dominated 'pathways', spaces and places. Strategies which challenge exclusionary practices are detailed within three ethnographic case studies, selected to reflect the diversity of genre, gender, generation, social class and success that I have found within Sheffield's music scene/s. Two case studies of mixed-gender 'amateur' bands and their 'interpretive community' of 'fans' explore the shifting affective alliances and interpretations generated through significant cultural events I call bandmarks: from the Radio One John Peel session to record company showcase. The third case study investigates the dialectical relationship between 'mainstream' success and gendered access, through analysing Pulp's journey along the 'continuum of success' (Kirschner, 1998). All three case studies shed light on the flexible meanings of fandom, 'making it', scene and place, demonstrating how 'mechanisms of exclusion' (Coates, 1997) and access are negotiated through a complex interplay of spatial, aesthetic, ideological and industrial conditions, which variably serve to construct and constrain women's musical practice within - and beyond - the local.
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Gomersall, Catherine. "On fate and fatalism : photography and fatal theories." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/425.
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This PhD thesis, On Fate and Fatalism: Photography and Fatal Theories, is a twopart practice-led enquiry comprising a book of photographs and an exegesis. This exegesis, entitled Photography and Fatal Theories, is my written interpretation and response to two bodies of artwork presented in my book, On Fate and Fatalism, in which I examine the notion of fate and fatalism through a photographic practice. This project proceeds by posing the question: how can notions of fate and fatalism be explored, articulated and interpreted in a photographic practice? In my series, Femme Fatalist: Woman With Taxidermy, which comprises Part One of my book On Fate and Fatalism, I examine the notion of fate with pertinence to postfeminism and argue that the discourse of postfeminism is enclosed in a discourse of how women relate to popular culture and consumption. My femme fatalist is a parody of the postmodern femme fatale trope, and through conceptualizing popular postfeminism as a form of fatalism, I present a critique of conspicuous consumption as being an insufficient form of postfeminist empowerment. I suggest that the notion of the abject offers a perspective on the importance of the fatal to subjectivity in postmodernity, and my interest in the fatal follows through to my series, Body Bags: “I am a Trash Bag”, which comprises Part Two of my book of photographs. In this second series, in which I conceptualize the plastic bag as the quintessential icon of postmodern consumption, I move toward a consideration of waste as a means to explore the notions of fate and fatalism. Through this investigation I find that to be a fatalist, and to believe in fate, has lost much of its meaning in postmodernity, and I suggest that practice-led research offers opportunities for a meaningful reconsideration of fate and fatalism’s relevance to discussions of postmodern subjectivity and discourses of consumption.
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Gonzalez, Evelyn. "Why Weight? Zines as Effective Health Communication Tools Against Fat Phobia." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1088.
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The current models for health care hold at their core a pathologization of fat bodies informed by discriminatory methods and ideologies leading to an explicit lack of quality medical care for those who fail to meet normative standards of health and size. This project is interested in examining alternative public health models that provide interventions into those systems. Specifically, this work will seek to understand how the grassroots movement, Health at Every Size (HAES), serves to interrupt current limited understandings of health and weight. HAES individualized, weight-neutral approach to health and wellness exists in seeming opposition to contemporary ideas around healthcare practices. In studying this alternative model, conventional ideas of health care towards fat patients will be understood to be informed primarily by discriminatory structural and ideological practices. In addition, by highlighting the healthcare industries’ investment in the medical industrial complex, this project aims to deconstruct and critique notions of health while increasing access to care that is informed by the realities of bodily difference. In addition, this thesis will argue for zines as important health information dissemination tools by first mapping and complicating its history, expanding on zines as an artistic and politicized medium, and finally emphasizing its capacity to communicate through alternative knowledges and distribution networks.
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Jenkins, Alexandra Mary. "Women's Experimental Autobiography from Counterculture Comics to Transmedia Storytelling: Staging Encounters Across Time, Space, and Medium." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407770633.
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Santana, L?lia Maria Sampaio. "Vidas caladas: a voz feminina em Graciliano Ramos." Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, 2016. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/485.
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Graciliano Ramos?s work has been studied under various aspects. However, studies on women in his work are limited to Sinha Victoria from Vidas Secas (Barren Lives), and/or Madalena from S?o Bernardo. This research developed an analysis of female characters in the fictional universe of the writer from Alagoas, namely: Lu?sa, from Caet?s, Madalena, from S?o Bernardo, Marina, from Ang?stia (Anguish), and Sinha Vit?ria from Vidas Secas, adding Mrs. Maria Amelia, the author?s mother, a significant presence Inf?ncia, a book that merges memory and fiction. The interpretation of the texts was carried out from the perspective of social and historical context of the works, focusing on the female universe. In each work the characters are involved in different themes, Ramos created fictionally women ahead of their time; anticipating discussions that would be intensified years later. In order to support the analysis of the novels, the opening chapters address the critical author's fortune, contextualization, history, language and silencing, historical retrospective of women in Brazil and the pursuit of equality with men. We intend to demonstrate the importance of the female voice, although their speech is delivered at a time when women were just beginning the path of militancy for their rights, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
A obra de Graciliano Ramos ? objeto de estudo sob os mais diversos aspectos. No entanto, os estudos realizados sobre as mulheres em sua obra limitam-se ? an?lise de Sinha Vit?ria, de Vidas secas e/ou Madalena, de S?o Bernardo. Nesta pesquisa foi desenvolvida uma an?lise das personagens femininas do universo ficcional do escritor alagoano, a saber: Lu?sa, de Caet?s, Madalena, de S?o Bernardo, Marina, de Ang?stia, e Sinha Vit?ria, de Vidas Secas, acrescentando-se d. Maria Am?lia, m?e do autor, presen?a marcante no livro Inf?ncia, obra que mescla mem?ria e fic??o. A interpreta??o dos textos foi realizada sob a perspectiva do contexto social e hist?rico das obras, com foco no universo feminino. Em cada obra as personagens est?o envolvidas em tem?ticas distintas, Ramos criou ficcionalmente mulheres ? frente de seu tempo, antecipando discuss?es que seriam intensificadas anos mais tarde. Com o prop?sito de subsidiar a an?lise dos romances, os cap?tulos iniciais abordam a fortuna cr?tica do autor, contextualiza??o hist?ria, linguagem e silenciamento, retrospectiva hist?rica da mulher no Brasil e a busca pela igualdade com os homens. Pretendemos demonstrar a import?ncia da voz feminina, ainda que seu discurso seja proferido em uma ?poca na qual as mulheres ainda estavam iniciando a trajet?ria da milit?ncia pelos seus direitos, entre o final do s?culo XIX e in?cios do s?culo XX.
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Nilsson, Julia. ""I hate to point out the obvious, but you are in fact a hooker"." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26410.
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Syftet med denna undersökning har varit att göra en analys av två filmer och två dokumentärer för att se hur dessa kan konstruera prostitution som ett socialt problem. Syftet har även varit att analysera och koppla attityder och tolkningar i filmerna till undersökningens teorikapitel om stigmatisering och feminism. Metoden till undersökningen har varit en datainsamling till tidigare kunskapsläge och teori, samt filmanalys av två filmer och två dokumentärer vars handlingar riktar sig till prostitution och prostituerade. Undersökningens resultat visar på att filmer har en påverkan på tittaren. Filmer producerar och upprätthåller normer och värderingar som tittaren sedan tar med sig ut i sin vardag och i samhället. Detta media tenderar att visa stereotyper kring kvinnor samt kring prostituerade som innebär att kvinnan kan ses som ”den andra”. Genom att kategorisera individer kan det även förekomma stigmatisering vilket innebär att individer, i detta fall prostituerade, anses vara avvikande utifrån att de inte följer normerna. Resultatet visar även på att det finns normer kring kvinnans kön som även detta kan komma till att vara betydande för om kvinnan kommer att betraktas som kvinnlig eller inte.The purpose of this study is to do an analysis of two movies and two documentaries to see how these can construct prostitution as a social problem. The purpose have also been to analyze and connect attitudes in the movies to the studies theories on stigmatization and feminism. The method to this study was a data collection for the knowledge position and the theory, as well as a film analysis of two movies and two documentaries whose story was aimed towards prostitution and prostitutes.The results of this study shows that movies has an impact and affect on the viewer. Movies produce and maintain norms and values that the viewer takes with them into society. Movies tend to show stereotypes on women and prostitution, which means that the women can be seen as “the other”. By categorizing individuals it can occur stigmatization, which means that individuals, in this case prostitutes, are seen as abnormal since they do not live by the norms. The result also indicate that there is norms connected to the female gender which also can have an impact if the woman will be perceived as female or not.
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Pang, Tian Yang. "Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, the Lao Tong relationship from a feminist perspective." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953434.
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O'Reilly, Sally Anne. "Dark Aemilia and inventing Shakespeare." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.571794.
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Motivation: When I set out to write a novel about Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, I wanted the focus to be on her, not the Bard. However, as I developed the idea, I realised that his character was an essential component of the narrative. So how should I set about ‘inventing’ such an iconic character? In addition, how relevant were earlier versions – biographical and fictional – to this project? Though I found a wealth of material about Shakespeare and his plays, I discovered there is a substantial sub-genre of Shakespeare invention. As a writer new to historical fiction, this felt a little like putting Jesus Christ into a story – and it turned out that some writers have given Shakespeare a distinctly Messianic character. Methods: In order to invent my own version of Shakespeare, I needed to assimilate what had gone before. The line between fact and fiction was blurred, but I clarified what was known and what unknown, and established what was myth. I then researched fourteen fictional versions of Shakespeare, starting with Kenilworth (Sir Walter Scott, Constable & Co, 1821) and ending with Shakespeare’s Memory (Jorge Luis Borges, Penguin, 2001). Results: My discovery was that the invention of history is a complex imaginative and intellectual process, but each writer solves a succession of challenges in their own way. Identifying these challenges helped me to create a new Shakespeare, and to clarify my own reasons for writing this particular novel. Conclusions: Far from being a form which is nostalgic, escapist or conservative, historical fiction is continually re-inventing itself in the light of the events and ideas which are contemporary to the writer. The continuing evolution and re-acquisition of the character of William Shakespeare is an illustration of its perennial significance.
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Eriksson, Elin. "Perceptions of Women in the Far-Right : A Comparative Ideology Analysis of Far-Right Perceptions of Women." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444733.
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This bachelor’s thesis aspires to contribute to the field of research concerning women and far-right extremism. Scholars have during recent years called attention to the surge of far-right extremism and female participation in jihadi terrorism. However, when these fields of research meet, various knowledge gaps are distinguishable. The explicit research gap that this thesis aims to fill concerns a lack of comparative research on how men and women in the extreme-right perceive women. To fill this gap, this thesis aspires to describe how women are perceived, on a sex-disaggregated basis, in the far-right extremist movement by answering the research question: How do the female far-right extremists in Proud Girls and the male far-right extremists in Proud Boys' perception of women differ? Using the gender-separated US extreme-right group Proud Boys/Proud Girls as a typical case, the study performs an ideology analysis to distinguish how the groups perceive women. Thus, this study contributes to the field by presenting a comparative analysis of how extreme right perceives women. The results of the study suggest a difference in how Proud Boys and Proud Girls perceive women as the former conveys a more misogynist perception whereas the latter adheres to a more empowering view of women.
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Cherry, Brigid S. G. "The female horror film audience : viewing pleasures and fan practices." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2268.
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What is at stake for female fans and followers of horror cinema? This study explores the pleasures in horror film viewing for female members of the audience. The findings presented here confirm that female viewers of horror do not refuse to look but actively enjoy horror films and read such films in feminine ways. Part 1 of this thesis suggests that questions about the female viewer and her consumption of the horror film cannot be answered solely by a consideration of the text-reader relationship or by theoretical models of spectatorship and identification. A profile of female horror film fans and followers can therefore be developed only through an audience study. Part 2 presents a profile of female horror fans and followers. The participants in the study were largely drawn from the memberships of horror fan groups and from the readerships of a cross-section of professional and fan horror magazines. Qualitative data were collected through focus groups, interviews, open-ended questions included in the questionnaire and through the communication of opinions and experiences in letters and other written material. Part 3 sheds light on the modes of interpretation and attempts to position the female viewers as active consumers of horror films. This study concludes with a model of the female horror film viewer which points towards areas of female horror film spectatorship which require further analysis. The value of investigating the invisible experiences of women with popular culture is demonstrated by the very large proportion of respondents who expressed their delight and thanks in having an opportunity to speak about their experiences. This study of female horror film viewers allows the voice of an otherwise marginalised and invisible audience to be heard, their experiences recorded, the possibilities for resistance explored, and the potentially feminine pleasures of the horror film identified.
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Marcus, Hilary Jennifer. "Between fact and fiction: Writing by American women in a transnational context." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623555.
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Drawing on poststructuralist theories of gender, nation and modernity, this dissertation is an interdisciplinary exploration of American experimental women's writing and their linkages to and explorations of colonial and U.S. imperialist histories. "Between Fact and Fiction: Writing by American Women in a Transnational Context" considers experimental literary texts by women writing from diverse spaces across places and times as cultural texts that can provide important insights for understanding transnational politics of power and possibilities for disrupting power. The project examines a broad range of experimental literary texts by women including Gertrude Stein, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Iranian-American women writers from the first literary anthology of Iranian-American women's work entitled Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writings by Women of the Iranian Diaspora .;Each author, in her own way, produces nuanced readings of power and domination on a structural (macro) level. Power and domination work both in terms of a culture's official narratives about itself, for example its history and its politics, as well as the literary stories it cherishes. These readings of power often remain unacknowledged in critical discourse because they are bracketed as aesthetic only. However, through an examination of American experimental writing by women, I argue that the aesthetic, the historical, and the political are all part of the same kind of discursive structure. and, for this reason, it is imperative to make known those discursive structures which masquerade as only historical or only aesthetic when basic discursive structure is left intact. I argue that together, these writings provide new ways of understanding U.S. culture and studying "America" within a transnational historical framework.
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Brayfield, Celia. "A critical review of four novels by Celia Brayfield considering their production and impact in the context of contemporary literature." Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12922.
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This critical review of four novels by Celia Brayfield, Getting Home, Mister Fabulous And Friends, Heartswap and Wild Weekend, outlines the themes that give the works defining coherence, which are a feminist evaluation of gender roles and an exploration of the relationship between space or place in millennial Britain. The author contextualises her novels in considering literary representations of the suburb in literature and use of the device of gender reversal in fiction. The review demonstrates that the novels make a significant and coherent contribution to knowledge as resonant and well-received creative works and provides an assessment of their international and national impact. In discussing the inspiration and influences of her work, her choices in characterisation, narrative and dramatised argument, and in particular her decision to create responses to two classic texts using the device of gender reversal, the author justifies the overarching approach and methodologies used for these novels.
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Jonsson, Anna, and Johanna Lindgren. "”Av kvinnor, för kvinnor. Fy fan!” En kvalitativ studie av hur sex svenska folkbibliotek integrerar jämställdhetsaspekter i sin användarorienterade verksamhet." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19232.
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This master’s thesis investigates how six Swedish public libraries integrate equality aspects in their user oriented activity. The theoretical starting point for the study is that Sweden is a part of a gender system characterized by gender separation and male superiority, as described by the Swedish historian Yvonne Hirdman and theories that argue that femininity and masculinity are social constructions. Another starting point is that the library sphere cannot be separated from the gender inequality in society. Since the library is part of a gender system that value individuals who are seen as males and separates men and women, some of the library users may be neglected. Research shows that there are significant differences between men’s and women’s usage of public libraries, which could be an indication that women and men do not have the same access to the library’s services. Qualitative interviews were performed with six librarians in order to gather data. The conclusions drawn from this study were that the investigated libraries did not work on a conscious level with equality in their user oriented activity. One of the main reasons for this was that the informants did not consider the differences between the sexes’ usage of the library as an equality issue. They also lacked clear directives from the steering documents and their view on gender was based on a biological ideology, which sees differences between the sexes as natural.Uppsatsnivå: D
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Stead, Nicola Jayne. "The anxiety of feminist influence : concepts of voice in Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/69973.
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This thesis explores the concepts of “voice” and “influence” through the case studies of two famous English-speaking Canadian women writers, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields. The “voice” is multiple, ambiguous and influenced, but it is also apparently unique. How, therefore, is it constructed and where does it come from? I examine, work with and adapt Harold Bloom’s paradigmatic study of influence to a feminist context, exploring the idea that a literary voice can be developed and influenced by Atwood and Shields. I discuss how these writers searched for an appropriate literary role model, exemplified by nineteenth-century English-Canadian writer Susanna Moodie, at the moment when Canadian nationalism and feminism coincided. Atwood and Shields are now canonical writers themselves and important in both the nationalist and women’s tradition, but have they gone on to influence new Canadian women writers? I test the pleasures and the anxieties of Shields’ influence with regard to her creative writing students and her own daughter, Anne Giardini, who has published her first novel. I compare Shields with Atwood, who has achieved a high level of fame, and examine what kind of influence each exerts. I discuss whether literary influence is politically different for women than men and whether there is any jealousy or power struggles between the sexes. Rivalry and competition between writers are not purely caused by the aesthetic issues that Bloom discusses, therefore I contextualise his concept of influence using literary celebrity studies to consider the economic basis of cultural production. This is in order to show that tensions are determined by market conditions, just as much as the new poet’s desire to overthrow a literary precursor. Finally, I examine fan letters to Atwood and Shields as another important source of literary influence. I discuss how fans are constructed through a commercial relationship and how they can also provide an amateur literary voice. Atwood and Shields have helped to create a network of writers across the globe. I explore whether both authors can be role models who will inspire the next literary generation.
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Braden, Heidi Elizabeth. "Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?" ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/453.
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This thesis argues that Isabel Archer of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady and Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth were nineteenth-century characters struggling to assert their social and sexual independence in a male dominated society. Although Isabel inherits a fortune that allegedly enables her to have more autonomy than Lily, both characters are negatively affected by their inability to conceive of their lives outside of social convention.
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Ziegler, Kathryn A. ""Formidable-femininity" : performing gender and third wave feminism in a women's self defense class /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594479911&sid=12&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lauritis, Beth Anne. "Lucy Lippard and the provisional exhibition intersections of conceptual art and feminism, 1970-1980 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1925733141&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Barry, Juli. "American families in fact and fiction : decentering a constrictive ideal /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9835407.
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BARROS, Andr? Henrique Sousa. "Do patriarcal ao monoparental: consumo material e a constru??o de identidade da fam?lia monoparental feminina." Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2017. https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/1844.
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In the last decades, patriarchal family models have shown a significant reduction in occurrences in Brazil, whereas single-parent family arrangements composed of women's exclusive leadership show constant growth (IBGE, 2015; LEONE et al., 2010; COSTA & MARRA, 2013; SCHIMANSKI & PEREIRA, 2013). Thus, changes in consumer practices during the family cycle offer a broader universe for consumer studies in the national context (CASSOTI & SUAREZ, 2015). It is in this sense that goods have the capacity to function as a path to the creation of a family identity, evidencing the interactions and reformulations that exist in the family (EPP & PRICE, 2008, COMMURY & GENTRY, 2000, MILLER, 2010). Therefore, the present research sought to investigate how the woman of the family who becomes a single parent uses the material culture to minimize and face the effects caused by the separation or death of the spouse during the construction of the identity of the female single parent family. Data collection was done through an in-depth interview with 12 female heads of single-parent families living in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro (MCCRAKEN, 1988). As a basic requirement to be interviewed, women should have assumed the responsibility of family in the last 7 years, a period of time in which the process of restructuring after divorce or death takes place (BURNS & DONALD 1980, Commury & Gentry 2000). The data collected were analyzed through content analysis (BARDIN, 2011). In this sense, comparing the results obtained and relating them to the family identity construction scheme proposed by Epp & Price (2008), the present study seems to point out that the construction of a single-parent family identity occurs exactly through thrusters such as; Marital disruption, a new form of leadership, greater integration among members, and limited family budget. In view of this, all these attributes are determinants in the forms of relation between family and materiality, because they stipulate the levels of intensity of this dialectical interaction. These forms of use, meaning, and interactions between individuals and goods seem to create two family stereotypes. The first was called a renewed family, which includes the units with the greatest flexibility to insert changes, both in the acquired assets and in the forms of negotiations and participation in the decision-making process. The second group corresponded to the gradual families, which were less prone to drastic changes in relation to the customs and consumption of family assets. These families often see the continuity of consumption patterns as essential to family harmony.
Nas ?ltimas d?cadas, os modelos de fam?lia patriarcal t?m apresentado uma redu??o significativa de ocorr?ncias no Brasil, enquanto que arranjos familiares monoparentais compostos pela exclusiva lideran?a da mulher apresenta crescimento constante (IBGE, 2015; LEONE et al 2010; COSTA & MARRA, 2013; SCHIMANSKI & PEREIRA, 2013). Desse modo, as transforma??es nas pr?ticas de consumo durante o ciclo familiar oferecem um amplo universo para os estudos de consumo em contexto nacional (CASSOTI & SUAREZ, 2015). ? nesse sentido que os bens possuem a capacidade de funcionar como caminho para a cria??o de identidade familiar, evidenciando as intera??es e reformula??es existentes na fam?lia (EPP & PRICE, 2008; COMMURY & GENTRY, 2000; MILLER, 2010). Diante disso, a presente pesquisa buscou investigar como a mulher da fam?lia que se torna monoparental utiliza a cultura material para minimizar e enfrentar os efeitos causados pela separa??o ou falecimento do c?njuge durante a constru??o da identidade da fam?lia monoparental feminina. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de entrevista em profundidade com 12 mulheres chefes de fam?lias monoparentais moradoras na regi?o metropolitana da cidade do Rio de Janeiro (MCCRAKEN,1988). Como requisito b?sico para ser entrevistada as mulheres deveriam ter assumido a condi??o de respons?vel da fam?lia nos ?ltimos 7 anos, per?odo de tempo o qual o processo de restrutura??o p?s divorcio ou falecimento incorre (BURNS & DONALD, 1980; COMMURY & GENTRY, 2000). Os dados coletados foram analisados por meio da an?lise de conte?do (BARDIN, 2011). Nesse sentido, comparando os resultados obtidos e os relacionando com o esquema de constru??o de identidade familiar proposto por Epp & Price (2008), o presente estudo parece apontar que a constru??o de uma de identidade de fam?lia monoparental ocorre exatamente atrav?s de propulsores como; rompimento conjugal, nova forma de lideran?a, maior integra??o entre os membros e limita??o or?amentaria da fam?lia. Diante disso, todos esses atributos s?o determinantes nas formas de rela??o entre a fam?lia e a materialidade, pois, estipulam os n?veis de intensidade dessa intera??o dial?tica. Essas formas de uso, significado e intera??es entre os indiv?duos e os bens parecem criar dois estere?tipos de fam?lia. A primeira foi denominada de fam?lia renovada, a qual compreende as unidades com maior flexibilidade para inser??o de mudan?as, tanto nos bens adquiridos quanto nas formas de negocia??es e participa??es no processo decis?rio. J? o segundo grupo correspondeu as fam?lias gradativas, sendo estas menos propensas as mudan?as dr?sticas em rela??o aos costumes e consumo dos bens familiares. Essas fam?lias geralmente enxergam a continuidade dos padr?es de consumo como algo essencial para a harmonia familiar.
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Groomes, Sally Anne. "Collapsing the binary reconsidering faith, feminism, and convention in the works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1691880051&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Triandos, Theodoros I. "The art of Deborah Kass the "appropriate" representation of the self /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 124 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1674956901&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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McLaughlin, Don James. "Off the beaten path how naturalism, regionalism, and feminism converged in American women's writing, 1915-1950 /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1855923231&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Townsend, Jessica A. "How to save the future anxiety and social criticism in feminist dystopia /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594494971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Mallory, Chaone. ""Subject to the laws of nature" : ecofeminism, representation, and political subjectivity /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1283960851&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-185). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Winterkvist, Frida. "”There is Nothing More Deceptive than an Obvious Fact” : A Feminist Study of the Detective Work by Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32473.
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This comparative study focuses on the detective genre and is conducted through literary analysis with a feminist critical perspective of two of its most iconic protagonists, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 and Agatha Christie in 1930 respectively. The purpose is to attempt to establish the effect of the gender differences on these two protagonists. Both Holmes and Miss Marple are deemed as iconic in the detective genre, but the protagonists do not have similar experiences and are created by authors of different genders. Thus, the focus is to explore how gender differences are represented in the literary texts A Study in Scarlet (1887), “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891), and The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) when it comes to their work as detectives. By using a feminist critical perspective and with the help of previous research, the differences in three central issues, that is, work methods, attitudes and method of disguise, are established. The most prominent result from the analysis is that Miss Marple has to work independently from the police force and trust another character, Leonard Clement, with what she knows hoping that Clement will use her observations to make the case move forward. By contrast, Holmes is approached by clients and even assists the police force in investigations, while Miss Marple is dismissed because of gender discrimination and ageism when she reaches out to the police force. Miss Marple is clearly a victim of gender discrimination and ageism, while Holmes is seen as eccentric but fully competent as a detective. Holmes is even described as having “extraordinary powers” while Miss Marple is described as an “old pussy” in a derogatory manner. Therefore, the results are that there is a significant difference in attitude where Holmes as a man encounters more positive attitudes and Miss Marple as a woman encounters more negative attitudes, all because of gender discrimination and ageism. These results are of great importance as it reveals what gender differences Holmes and Miss Marple encounter in their literary texts. It opens up the opportunity for more research in gender differences and gender discrimination in comparisons between protagonists. That Miss Marple is successful in the end, however, functions as a feminist statement.
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Carwile, Christey. "Sweet mothers : feminine forms of power in Nigeria /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1483331861&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2007."Department of Anthropology." Keywords: Igbo, Gender, Ethnography, Feminist anthropology, Mothers, Feminine, Power, Nigeria Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187). Also available online.
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Chan, Kung Fong. "Cong jiao yu zhong "gai zao" nü xing : yi "Guangdong Sheng li di yi nü zi shi fan xue xiao" wei ge an yan jiu (1907-1938) /." View abstract or full-text, 2004. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?HUMA%202004%20CHAN.
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Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-342). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.
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Slaviero, Diana L. "An exploration of feminist ideology as a protective factor for body image disturbance /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1212794811&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Andrade, Fábia de Oliveira. "Nutrição e origem desenvolvimentista do câncer de mama: consumo de ração com alto teor de gordura animal por ratas durante a gestação/lactação e suscetibilidade da prole feminina à carcinogênese mamária." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/9/9132/tde-27052015-121330/.
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O presente trabalho investigou se a exposição em períodos precoces da vida à ração com alto teor de gordura animal altera o risco de câncer de mama na vida adulta em ratas. Ratas mães foram expostas à ração com alto teor de gordura (ATG) à base de banha de porco (60 % de energia proveniente de gordura) ou uma dieta controle AIN93G (16 % de energia proveniente de gordura) durante a gestação ou gestação e lactação. A prole feminina com 7 semanas de idade foi induzida a carcinogênese mamária com o carcinógeno 7,12-dimeti-benz[a]antraceno. Comparado à prole do grupo controle, observou-se menor suscetibilidade à carcinogênese mamária na prole do grupo de ratas prenhas submetidas à ração ATG durante a gestação (menor incidência de neoplasias, multiplicidade e peso das neoplasias) ou gestação e lactação (menor multiplicidade). Prole feminina de ratas exposta à ração ATG durante a gestação apresentou menor crescimento da árvore epitelial mamária, proliferação celular (Ki67) e expressão de NFkB p65 e maior expressão de p21 e níveis globais de H3K9me3 na glândula mamária. Além disso, esta apresentou uma tendência na redução da razão Rank/Rankl (p=0,09) e níveis de progesterona sérica (p=0,07). Glândula mamária da prole feminina do grupo exposto à ração ATG durante a gestação e lactação apresentou menor número de TEBs, crescimento da árvore epitelial e razão BCL-2/BAX e maiores níveis de leptina em comparação à prole do grupo controle. Análise de lipidômica das glândulas mamárias revelou que exposição à ração ATG especificamente durante a gestação apresentou pequenos efeitos no perfil de ácidos graxos na prole feminina, enquanto que a exposição à essa ração durante a gestação e lactação promoveu menor concentração de ácidos graxos saturados (exceto ácido esteárico) e maior concentração de ácidos graxos polinsaturados da série n-6, monoinsaturados e ácido linoleico conjugado (CLA). De acordo com análise de dependência de redes diferencial (DDN) dos genes diferentemente expressos pela análise de \"microarray\" exposição à ração ATG em períodos precoces da vida altera a rede transcricional da glândula mamária na vida adulta. Especificamente, ratas expostas à ração ATG somente durante o período fetal apresentou aumento da expressão de Hrh1 e Repin1 em comparação ao controle. A prole exposta à ração durante o período fetal e lactacional apresentou maior e menor expressão de Stra6 e Tlr1 em comparação ao contole, respectivamente e menor expressão de Crkrs em comparação à prole exposta à ração somente durante o período fetal. Nossos dados confirmam que o risco de câncer de mama da prole pode ser programado pela alimentação materna. No entanto, ao contrário do que se esperava, exposição a altos níveis de gordura animal no início da vida diminuiu a suscetibilidade ao câncer de mama na vida adulta. Dentre os possíveis mecanismos envolvidos nessa proteção encontram-se a modulação da morfologia e perfil lipídico da glândula mamária, redução da proliferação celular e aumento dos níveis proteicos de reguladores do ciclo celular, modulação de marcas epigenéticas como H3K9me3, modulação da expressão gênica global com alteração de redes de sinalização, bem como regulação de vias de sinalização específicas como RANK/RANKL/NFκB. Porém esses mecanismos são dependentes do tempo e período de exposição.The present study investigated whether early life exposure to high levels of animal fat changes breast cancer risk in adulthood in rats. Dams consumed a lard-based high-fat (HF) diet (60% fat-derived energy) or an AIN93G control diet (16% fat-derived energy) during gestation or gestation and lactation. Their 7-week-old female offspring were exposed to 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene to induce mammary tumors. Compared to the control offspring, significantly lower susceptibility to mammary cancer development was observed in the offspring of dams fed on HF diet during gestation (lower tumor incidence, multiplicity and weight), or gestation and lactation (lower tumor multiplicity only). Mammary epithelial elongation, cell proliferation (Ki67), and expression of NFkB p65 were significantly lower, and p21 expression and global H3K9me3 levels were higher in the mammary glands of rats exposed to HF lard diet in utero. They also tended to have lower Rank/Rankl ratios (p=0.09) and serum progesterone levels (p=0.07) than control offspring. In the mammary glands of offspring of dams consuming the HF diet during both gestation and lactation, the number of terminal end buds, epithelial elongation and the BCL-2/BAX ratio were significantly lower, and serum leptin levels were higher than in the controls. Lipidomic analysis on mammary glands showed that exposure to a lard-based HF diet only during gestation had little effects on fatty acids profile on offspring, whereas this exposure during gestation and lactation promoted significant changes on the offspring\'s mammary glands. In general, it decreased SFA (except for stearic acid) and increased n-6 PUFA, MUFA and CLA concentrations in mammary gland. According to Differential dependency network (DDN), analysis of genes differently expressed by microarray, exposure to HF diet during early life changes the transcriptional network of the mammary gland in adulthood. Specifically, rats exposed to HF diet only during the fetal period showed increased expression of Hrh1 e Repin1 compared to the control. The offspring exposed to the HF diet in utero and nursing had higher and lower expression of Stra6 and Tlr1, respectively, compared to the control and lower expression of Crkrs compared to the offspring exposed only in utero. Our data confirm that the breast cancer risk of offspring can be programmed by maternal dietary intake. However, contrary to our expectation, exposure to high levels of lard during early life decreased later susceptibility to breast cancer. The mechanisms involve modulation of mammary gland\'s morphology and lipid profile, decrease of cell proliferation and increase of cell cycle regulators, modulation of epigenetics marks as H3K9me3, modulation of global gene expression with alteration of transcriptional network and RANK/RANKL/NFκB pathway. However, these mechanisms are dependent on the duration and period of exposure.
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Frail, James H. "Powers and abilities far behind those of mortal men an examination of the comic book industry and subculture through a feminist sociological perspective /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2004. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=424.
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Lima, Ivanildo Ant?nio de. "Aqui ? o lugar que toda mulher trabalha: uma etnografia sobre o trabalho feminino na comunidade quilombola de Capoeiras - Maca?ba/RN." PROGRAMA DE P?S-GRADUA??O EM ANTROPOLOGIA SOCIAL, 2015. https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/24751.
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Este trabalho de cunho etnogr?fico tem interesse em refletir e fazer uma descri??o sobre o processo de inser??o das mulheres de Capoeiras no mercado de trabalho, localizada no munic?pio de Maca?ba (RN). Observamos no decorrer da pesquisa que desde o final dos anos 50 as mulheres da comunidade est?o em constante movimento entre o rural e o urbano e desenvolvendo atividades de trabalho dentro e fora da comunidade. Dessa forma, com o emprego de t?cnicas e m?todos etnogr?ficos ? entrevistas, pesquisa de campo e uso de instrumentos ?udio visuais - procura-se dar visibilidade ao processo hist?rico, trajet?rias, negocia??es e mudan?as engendradas na vida da mulher, da fam?lia e da comunidade. Em suma, este estudo pretende compreender qual ? o espa?o da mulher que exerce atividade de trabalho e discutir como essas novas din?micas s?o negociadas e pensadas no contexto da fam?lia e pela comunidade estudada.
This ethnographic work is interested in reflecting and make a description of the process of integration of Capoeiras of women in the labor market, in the municipality of Maca?ba (RN). We note that since the late 50 community women are constantly moving between the rural and the urban and developing work activities inside and outside the community. Thus, with the use of techniques and ethnographic methods - interviews, field research and use of audio visual instruments - seeks to give visibility to the historical process paths, negotiations and changes engendered in the life of women, the family and the community. In short, this study aims to understand what the woman space exercising work activity and discuss how these new dynamics are negotiated and designed in the context of the family and the community studied.
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Salgado, Susana Ortiz. "Influence of feminist orientation & family connectedness on adolescent Latino/a students' career aspirations /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1404354681&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Castronova, Nina Maria. "The intersection of feminism and the narrative metaphor in the practice and profession of family therapy a Delphi study /." Related electronic resource:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1398609681&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Desceul, Lise. "La paire fait les pair·e·s : herméneutiques lesbiennes et représentations féministes de la femme hindoue." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCH004.
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Cette analyse a pour but de dénoncer les mythes créateurs du féminin et du masculin hérités des politiques culturelles sexuelles érigées au creuset de la rencontre coloniale. L’étude de A Married Woman (Manju Kapur), Babyji (Abha Dawesar), Indian Tango (Ananda Devi), trois romans présentant le lesbianisme comme une stratégie féministe d’émancipation, permet de mettre au jour diverses dynamiques discursives, d’exploiter le concept de représentation, et d’interroger les catégories préexistantes. Ces trois romans sont en effet écrits par des femmes participant à la culture indo-hindoue, et proposent des héroïnes à la similarité troublante : brahmines, habitant Delhi et insatisfaites de l’immobilisme liberticide de leur genre. Le préjudice hétéropatriarcal gaine les individus plaqués à l’intersection de leurs appartenances identitaires diverses et superposées : le genre, la culture, la sexualité… Le chemin de ces héroïnes suit ainsi une évolution interrogeant les inventions patriarcales de l’identité de la femme indo-hindoue. Au-delà de la dénonciation des dérives de son essentialisation, c’est sa transgression qui est éblouissante, parce qu’elle est sexuelle et lesbienne, engageant ainsi les possibilités d’une altérité, d’une alternative, d’un devenir différent. Ces textes questionnent alors la poésie et l’efficacité d’une esthétique lesbienne, la validité démiurge d’une utopie lesbienne, et le symbolisme d’un motif qui unit femmes de papier et autrices de chair au sein d’un positionnement récusant la subalternité implicite de catégories oppressives et obsolètes. En s’emparant de l’ipséité, ces narrations introduisent une poétique queer défiant déterminismes, cristallisations, normes et hiérarchies. Elles ouvrent à des possibilités radicales et multiples d’existences, de créations, signalant la matérialité de marginalités subversives qui problématisent la notion même d’individu, envisagée dans sa perspective hypermoderneThis analysis aims at denouncing the original myths of the feminine and the masculine, inherited of the sexual cultural politics uprighted in the crucible of the colonial encounter. The study of A Married Woman (Manju Kapur), Babyji (Abha Dawesar), Indian Tango (Ananda Devi), three novels presenting lesbianism as a feminist strategy of emancipation, allows to excavate various discursive dynamics, to exploit the concept of representation, and to interrogate the preexisting categories. These three novels are indeed written by women belonging to the Indo-Hindu culture, and offer heroines with troubling similarities: Brahmines, Delhiites and dissatisfied with the repressions and inertia of their gender. The heteropatriarcal prejudice suffocates the individuals tackled at the intersection of their several and overlapping identity belongings: gender, culture, sexuality… These heroines’ paths hence follow an evolution interrogating the patriarchal inventions of the Indo-Hindu woman’s identity. Beyond the exposition and accusation of its essentialization’s deviations, it is its transgression which is dazzling, because it is sexual and lesbian, introducing the possibilities of an alterity, an alternative, a different becoming. These texts thus question the poetry and efficiency of a lesbian aesthetic, the demiurge validity of a lesbian utopia, and the symbolism of a pattern unifying the paper women and the women writers in a positioning rejecting the implicit subalternity of oppressive and obsolete categories. By getting a hold of ipseity, these narrations introduce a queer poetic defying determinisms, crystallizations, norms and hierarchies. They open to radical and multiple possibilities of living and creating, indicating the materiality of subversive marginalities which problematize the very notion of individual, envisioned in its hypermodern perspective
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Wynne, Hayley. ""Leave Sunny Imaginations Hope": The Fate of Three Women in Charlotte Bronte's Villette." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1292456479.
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Wang, Jianhui. "Sexual politics in the works of Chinese American women writers Sui Sin Far, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan /." Open access to IUP's electronic theses and dissertations, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2069/51.
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Kima, Raogo Strickland Ronald. "Feminist intersections reading Louise Erdrich and Buchi Emecheta within/across cultural boundaries /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225115021&SrchMode=1&sid=5&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177689713&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title from title page screen, viewed on April 27, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Ronald L. Strickland (chair), Susan Kalter, Kristin Dykstra, Elizabeth K. Stone. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-221) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Herron, LaWanda. "Gender, practice, and policy : a feminist perspective of the nursing faculty shortage /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2007. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1414117731&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1219779260&clientId=22256.
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